Max characters in textarea with jquery

Question

I have the following code, and I\'m kind of stuck on what to do next. The idea is when you enter text into a text area a counter tells you how many characters you have left.

Answer 1

A simple way to do this is to set the text in the textarea to a substring of the full amount. You can find an example here:

http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/form/limit-characters.html